The Human Body
How many new red blood cells does the average adult's bone marrow produce every second?
Answer
2,000,000 cells per second
Two million per second, every second, mostly from the marrow in your spine, ribs, and pelvis. In the time it took you to read this sentence, you made about 10 million of them.
Source: American Society of Hematology / Stanford Blood Center
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